[Pen-l] Introducing the 'Iron Eagles' - Awesomely Bad Videos from the Military-Industrial Complex

[raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://blog.wired.com/defense/iron_eagles/index.html
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The idea wasn't to make a vaguely-menacing, sometimes-silly testament
to the Pentagon's far-reaching spy powers; quite the opposite. This
Defense Intelligence Agency promotional video was supposed to be a way
for the group to explain to the rest of the military-industrial
complex "who we are and what we do." But to outsider ears, the clip
just alternates between goofy and creepy.

"DIA intelligence analysts, working with the CIA, the State
Department, and other government agencies, maintain comprehensive
knowledge bases, in an effort to know something about everything, at
all times," a Navy narrator says. Oddly, he's holding a teeny-tiny
globe in his hands.

Then he tosses the globe to a dude in a trenchcoat. He explains that
DIA isn't just interested in enemy armies, terrorists, and
narco-traffickers. "Foreign politics, global economics, and
geographic, medical, and health issues"  all come under the agency's
watchful eye, as well. So does forest fires, volcanic eruptions, and
environmental hazards. Oh, and DIA "reaches out to foreign nationals
on the street," too. Is that Times Square they're showing in the
background?

Now, this is hardly the worst footage to come out of the
military-industrial complex. It may not even be the worst film made
for DIA -- check out this hard-rockin' clunker. Truth is, the larger
defense community is packed with promotional videos that are weirdly
unnerving, unintentionally hilarious, or just plain crappily made.




-raghu.

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"I have the heart of a child... in a jar on my desk." - Stephen King
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